Opioid painkillers now cause more drug overdose deaths than cocaine and heroin combined.

Hydrocodone is the most commonly diverted and abused controlled pharmaceutical in the United States

Opiate overdoses lead to over 500,000 emergency department (ED) visits per year

Quest Diagnostics published a report in 2016 concerning prescription drugs found in urine. The study looked at tens of thousands of drug tests and found that 54% of all samples tested were not consistent with the physician’s documented prescriptions. In other words, more than half of urine drug screen samples were missing something that should be present, or had something present that was not prescribed.